“When a writer is born into a family,” wrote poet Czeslaw Milosz, “that family is finished.” Well, now Michael Bloomberg can say goodbye to his family. Georgina Bloomberg, daughter of New York City’s three-term mayor, has penned The A Circuita roman a clef about the daughter of blunt-talking Wall Street billionaire who “owns half of New York.”

“So a single image can split open the hard seed of the past, and soon memory pours forth from every direction, sprouting its vines and flowers up around you till the old garden’s taken shape in all its fragrant glory.” Read an excerpt from Mary Karr’sThe Art of Memoirat Longreads. Pair with Beth Kephart’s essay on how memoir can be a conversation between reader and writer.

What would happen if two percent of the world’s population disappeared overnight? HBO’s new teaser for its adaptation of Tom Perrotta’sThe Leftovers asks us to contemplate that question. From what we see so far, it looks terrifying. The series premieres on June 15.